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In a bold move to undercut an NFL stadium at Hollywood Park, the sports and entertainment firm AEG commissioned a study by former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge that found the Inglewood project would be a tempting target for terrorists and should not be built. AEG has been pursuing its own NFL stadium next to Staples Center for several years and is in direct competition with Inglewood, whose plan was approved Tuesday by that city's government. In a 14-page report, Ridge suggests that because the Inglewood stadium proposed by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke would lie within three to four miles of Los Angeles International Airport and beneath the flight path of...

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In a bold move to undercut an NFL stadium at Hollywood Park, the sports and entertainment firm AEG commissioned a study by former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge that found the Inglewood project would be a tempting target for terrorists and...

The low boom, like thunder, didn't startle Galden Sherpa at first. At Mt. Everest base camp, climbers often heard the loud rumble of ice fracturing as the first sunlight struck the mountainside above.
Then word came over the radio: A massive glacier...

Jordanian fighter planes have destroyed dozens of targets in a ramped-up bombardment against Islamic State positions in response to the killing of a captive Jordanian pilot, the nation’s top airman said Sunday.
“We are determined to wipe out this...

A domestic airliner that crashed in Taipei on Wednesday lost power in both engines, including one disabled by the pilots for unknown reasons, before it plunged sideways into a river, investigators said Friday based on the cockpit voice recorder.
The...

A pilot taking selfies may have contributed to the deadly crash of a small plane in Colorado last year, federal investigators said.
The pilot, Amritpal Singh, 29, and his passenger, Jatinder Singh, 31, were killed May 31 when the two-seat Cessna...

Malaysia's government on Thursday officially declared the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing last March, an accident.
The official declaration by the country's Department of Civil Aviation should clear the way for the...

L.A. producer Scott Zabielski is still shocked he won the Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” contest Sunday, landing a $1-million prize and a “dream job” at Universal Pictures.
“It doesn’t even feel real. It was just cool enough to see the spot air during...

A United Airlines jet headed from LAX to Virginia safely made an emergency landing at Ontario International Airport on Thursday, officials said.
The decision to divert the plane was made after its crew reported an emergency. Passengers on board said...

The two Marines killed in a helicopter crash during a training mission at Twentynine Palms were from a squadron based at Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps said Sunday.
Capt. Elizabeth Kealey and 1st Lt. Adam Satterfield were the only Marines aboard a...

Two Marines were killed in a helicopter crash Friday at the base in Twentynine Palms, the Marine Corps said.
The crash occurred about 4:30 p.m. at the sprawling desert base during a routine training mission.
The helicopter was part of the 3rd Marine...

After last year's fatal crash, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic will now test its new SpaceShipTwo rocket without its longtime aerospace partner that designed and built the first plane.
Since 2005, Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites, a firm famous in...

Authorities searched two planes in Atlanta, but no bombs were found, officials said on Saturday.
“The all-clear has been given and no devices were discovered on board either aircraft. Normal airport operations have resumed,” airport officials said in...

The pilot of a twin-engine plane flying over Kentucky earlier this month reported losing power in the right engine and losing sight of the airport shortly before a crash that killed all on board except a 7-year-old girl, according to a preliminary...

Two soldiers were hurt Tuesday night when a military helicopter crashed at a civilian airport in northeast San Diego County.
The two, from the California Army National Guard, were on a routine training mission when the UH-60 Blackhawk crashed at the...

A military helicopter crashed Tuesday night in the rural area of northeast San Diego, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The two military personnel aboard were able to crawl out when the helicopter landed on its...

Wreckage found on the side of a mountain at the edge of the Mojave Desert is believed to be the remains of an aircraft that went missing on radar Tuesday night while en route to Nevada, search team officials said.
The single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza was...

The Indonesia AirAsia plane that crashed last month was climbing at an abnormally high rate of speed before plunging into the Java Sea, an analysis of radar data shows.
Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan told the parliament Tuesday that data...

Indonesian navy divers retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the crashed AirAsia jet, officials said Tuesday, as experts prepared to analyze the aircraft’s “black box” devices for clues to the accident.
The flight data recorder was sent Monday to...

Search teams detected a signal from the floor of the Java Sea on Friday but were not immediately able to discern if it was coming from the "black boxes" of the crashed AirAsia jet, officials said.
Divers were sent to the area but returned...